Juanita Benedicto spent much of her childhood outside climbing tangerine trees to observe the noisy junebugs in her mother's garden, exploring the canyon behind her home in Southern California for peacocks and coyote, appreciating the majestic orchestra of the sea, and listening to her grandmother's stories as she fell asleep under a blanket of sky. Witnessing nature developed her intuition which grew in the incubator of silence. Encouraged by her grandmother, she learned to trust in the quiet that houses the deepest understanding.
On a quest to pack many lives into one, Juanita has worked in the streams of Northern California restoring salmon to their spawning grounds. She has run the dirt roads of rural Missouri often picking up stray dogs as traveling companions. She completed a Bachelor's in Psychology and a Master's in Library & Information Science at the University of Missouri. She spent four years with nuns in Central Mexico to educate girls, build a library, and introduce battered women back to their bodies. She served at a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Retreat Center for two years, living off the grid in a cabin in the Redwood Forest studying Buddhist philosophy and admiring the many forest animals that congregated near her cabin.
Today, she lives in the picturesque town of San Miguel de Allende located in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, where she works full-time as a consulting astrologer. She is a member of OPA, The Organization of Professional Astrology and ISAR, International Society for Astrological Research. Having studied the tarot and astrology since 2004, she offers heart filled consultations and is constantly inspired by the perfect nature of the present moment.
On a quest to pack many lives into one, Juanita has worked in the streams of Northern California restoring salmon to their spawning grounds. She has run the dirt roads of rural Missouri often picking up stray dogs as traveling companions. She completed a Bachelor's in Psychology and a Master's in Library & Information Science at the University of Missouri. She spent four years with nuns in Central Mexico to educate girls, build a library, and introduce battered women back to their bodies. She served at a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Retreat Center for two years, living off the grid in a cabin in the Redwood Forest studying Buddhist philosophy and admiring the many forest animals that congregated near her cabin.
Today, she lives in the picturesque town of San Miguel de Allende located in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, where she works full-time as a consulting astrologer. She is a member of OPA, The Organization of Professional Astrology and ISAR, International Society for Astrological Research. Having studied the tarot and astrology since 2004, she offers heart filled consultations and is constantly inspired by the perfect nature of the present moment.
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This is just so good. I am loving the personification of planets and the marvelous and truly insightful and thought-provoking illustrations of the aspect energies. Your contributions are so creative, playful and accessible; they are immensely valuable. Every time I read one, I am invited into, and I delightfully accept, a journey of introspection, contemplation, and breakthrough. I am so grateful.